(I love talking about this stuff! It's fun to remember.)
OK. I don't know what cackleberries are. That must be a Carolina expression! Explain it to me, please, Jack. 
What about the pigs? Did you like them or were you scared of them or anything? My granddad did not have pigs very often. They were a lot of trouble he thought. We had all kinds of chickens, turkeys, ducks and always at least a couple of cows.
Did you have a swingset in the backyard? That was a lot of fun too. Mine had a see-saw and two swings and bars on the end to flip on, but no slide! Darnit. LOL. I painted it all the time. Every time my grandparents would paint something, I took the paint remnants and gave my swingset a new coat. It had been red, blue, and yellow, as well as combinations of the three! 
Do you ever think maybe you would have liked to been an architect or a DJ or an engineer or something because you like all those things from your childhood? I like what I do fine, but sometimes I wish I'd pursued other things. I love watching hawks and other birds of prey -- is that an ornithologist? But, you know, how many ornithologists are there? I guess I could have had a job at a zoo or wildlife refuge maybe. 20/20 hindsight sometimes. Another thing I thought about was veterinary medicine. I'm sure that's stressful, tho. Don't know if I could stand up to the pressure of having someone's pet's life in my hands -- I'm too fragile. 
I'm not sure where the term "cackleberries" came from. Either I made it up or my grandma told me that's what they were. They were eggs and she used to make them for me. I asked my mother for some one time and she didn't know what they were. My grandma had chickens so I would go out and get eggs out of the hen house. She lived right below us and my mother did grow up on a farm. By the time I came around it was not as big of a farm as it had been. My grandpa died when I was very young so I hardly remember him. My grandma died when I was only around 12 or so too, but I remember her very well. They had cows at one time. I know my father talks about a cow that used to chase him around. He was from the city, Philadelphia, so I'm sure coming to the country was an experience for him. I don't ever remember being afraid of the pigs, but I know they were a lot of trouble to slop.
Yes I definitely had a swingset and guess what I always imagined it to be? An amusement park of course
Remember I have always loved amusement parks. So I pretended they were different kinds of rides. I don't think I ever had a slide either. I had one of those swings though with seats on each side. I used to try to get that to get high enough so that I could go over the top. Well in fact I wanted to do that with the regular swings too. And yes I loved the see saw except that many times nobody would be on the other side and that didn't work too well
I definitely wanted to be a DJ. That was my dream!!! Even as an adult that has crossed my mind. I had a friend who was a DJ who travelled around to events only about 10 years ago and I thought about trying to get into that. That is probably the reason I seem to have so many music threads
I thought the other day that I wanted to have one that focused on all new music cause I keep up on that too, but I started realizing that if I kept going on my blog was going to turn into a radio station
And my radio station would be so mixed up on formats that nobody would know what might play next.
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